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Henry Maybury : ウィキペディア英語版 | Henry Maybury
Brigadier-General Sir Henry Percy Maybury , CB, (1864 – 7 January 1943) was a British civil engineer.〔(Glyn Valley Tramway Trust biography )〕 He began his career as a railway engineer, working on many railways in England and Wales before becoming the county surveyor for Kent. At the start of the First World War he was appointed to supervise roads used by the Allies in France, holding the British Army rank of Brigadier-General. In recognition of his services in this theatre he was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath and a Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George by the British government and an officer of the Legion of Honour by the French. After the war he held various civil service positions, mainly within the Ministry of Transport, and was elected president of the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1933. == Early life ==
Maybury was born in Uffington in Shropshire and was educated at nearby Upton Magna. Upon finishing his studies Maybury began work for the Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway, a joint venture between the Great Western and London and North Western railway companies. He worked on the Glyn Valley Tramway during the rebuilding in 1886. From 1892 until 1895 he served as the engineer and surveyor of the Ffestiniog Railway, followed by a similar appointment to the Tewkesbury and Malvern Railway. From 1904 until 1913 Maybury served as the county surveyor for Kent. In 1910 he was a member of the Advisory Engineering Committee to the Road Board, serving as their Chief Engineering Officer upon leaving his position in Kent.〔
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